2 Campanula (Tourn.) L. Bluebell. 
Perennial herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers perfect, bell-shaped, 
displayed in racemes or rarely solitary. Sepals 5, nearly or quite free, 
the calyx tube wholly united to the ovary. Corolla blue, with short lobes. 
Stamens 5. Ovary 5-S-chambered, the styles united; stignas 3-5. Capsule 
obovoid or top-shaped, opening by lateral poyxes which are covered by a 
small incurled flap. Seeds smooth. OD 
1. C. rotundifolia L. —~———7 Perennial with slender rootstocks; stems 
several, ascending, 20-40 om. tall, glabrous; basal leaf-blades rotund 
to ovate or lanceolate, the blades .5=-2 om. long, entire or remotely 
serrate, even cordate or narrowed to petioles 2-4 om. long; cauline leaves 
3-5 cm. long, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, acute, subentire, 
sessile; flowers several, rarely solitary,nodding, borne on peduncles 2-4 
ome long; calyx tube 2-3 mm. long, the lobes acicular, spreading, 4-6 mn. 
long, both increasing in fruit; corolla blue, campanulate, 12-20 mm. long, 
the lobes rounded, 3-5 mm. long; filaments expanded and lightly united at 
the base; anthers linear, 4-5 mm. long, the style subequal to the corolla; 
capsule 5 mm. long, obovoid; seeds oval, smooth, .8 mm. long. — 
—=»(C. petiolata A. ee 
> C. MacDougalii Rydb.) 
Common throughout our region, meadows and rocky hillsides. 
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